Annexure XVI
Faculty of Law
Osmania University
LL.M. Syllabus
(Revised w.e.f. the Academic Year 2017-2018)
Duration : 02 Years
Total No. of Semesters : 04
Duration of each semester : 15 weeks
BRANCH-VIII
Intellectual Property Rights
Year / Semester/Paper No. / Paper / Marks in End
Semester Exam / Marks in Internal exams / Total Marks
First Year- First Semester / I/I / Schools of Jurisprudence and Theories of Law / 80 / 20 / 100
ʺ / I/II / Intellectual Property Rights: Concepts / 80 / 20 / 100
First Year-Second Semester / II/III / International Legal Regime Relating to Intellectual Property Rights / 80 / 20 / 100
ʺ / II/IV / Law Relating to Copyright and Neighboring Rights / 80 / 20 / 100
Second Year-Third Semester / III/V / Legal Research Methodology / 80 / 20 / 100
ʺ / III/VI / Law Relating to Patents in India / 80 / 20 / 100
Second Year-Fourth Semester / IV/VII / Law Relating to Trademarks and Designs / 80 / 20 / 100
ʺ / IV/VIII / Indian Constitutional Law: The New Challenges
Thesis / 80 / 20 / 100
ʺ / IV/IX / Dissertation / 160 for thesis / 40 for viva-voce / 200
Grand Total / 1000
SEMESTER-I
PAPER-I
SCHOOLSOFJURISPRUDENCEANDTHEORIESOFLAW
(Common Paper for All the Branches)
UNIT-I
Nature and scope of Jurisprudence – Classification of Jurisprudence into Schools-Salient features of Analytical, Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Schools.
UNIT-II
Meaning of Positivism-Analytical positivism of Bentham and Austin Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law-Hart's Concept of Law-Dworkin's criticism-Hart-Fuller controversy-Hart-Devlin's debate-Modern trends in Analytical and Normative Jurisprudence-Rawls and Distributive Justice-Nozick and the Minimal State.
UNIT-III
Historical and Ancient Indian Jurisprudence-Savigny's concept of Volksgeist-Contribution of Henry Maine; Economic theory of law-Views of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles; Sociological theories of law Contribution of Ihering-Contribution of Ehrlich-Duguit's theory of Social Solidarity-Roscoe Pound's Social Engineering and Classification of Interests-American and Scandinavian Realism-Critical Legal Studies Movement.
UNIT-IV
Theories of Natural Law-Meaning of Natural Law-History of Natural law –Greek origins-Medieval period-View of St.Thomas Acquinas-Period of Renaissance/Reformation-Grotius and International Law Transcendental Idealism-View of Immanuel Kant":Natural Law and Social Contract theories-Stammler and Natural Law with variable content-Fuller and the Morality of Law-Hart on Natural Law-Finnis and Restatement of Natural law-Positivists and Naturalists debate.
Suggested Readings:
•G.W.Paton: A Text book of Jurisprudence, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
•R.W.M. Dias, Jurisprudence, Aditya Books Private Ltd., New Delhi
•W.Friedmann: Legal Theory, Columbia University Press, NewYork
•Dennis Lloyd: Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence, Sweet and Maxwell, London.
•Julius Stone: The Province and Function of Law; Associated GeneralPublications Pvt. Ltd. Sydney.
•Howard Davies and David Holdcraft: Jurisprudence: Texts andCommentary; Butterworths, London, Dublin, Edinburgh.
•S.N.Dhyani: Fundamentals of Jurisprudence: The lndian Approach,Central Law Agency, Allahabad.
•Edgar Bodenheimer: Jurisprudence; The Philosophy and Method of theLaw, Universal Book Traders, Delhi.
•Rama Jois, Seeds of Modern Public Law in Ancient Jurisprudence, EasternBook Company, Lucknow.
•Rama Jois, Ancient Indian Law-Eternal Values in Manu Smriti, UniversalLaw Publishing Co., New Delhi.
PAPER-II
Intellectual Property Rights: Concepts
Unit-I
ConceptualFrameworkofProperty-LegalconceptofProperty-ElementsofProperty-ClassificationofProperty-TheoriesofProperty:OccupationTheory-Locke's Labour Theory of Property -Hegel's Personality Theory of Property -Marxian Theory on Private Property and IP -EconomicTheoryandSocialTrustTheory
UNIT-II
Jurisprudentialaspectsofproperty-ownership,Possessionand title Constitutional Aspects of Property -Meaning,natureandevolutionofIntellectualProperty-PositioninAncient India-AnalysisofWIPOdefinitionofIntellectualProperty-Theoretical justification for protection of IP
UNIT-III
ClassificationofIntellectualProperty-IndustrialProperty,LiteraryProperty and Emerging Forms-TraditionalformsofIP-Patents,Trademarks,Trade Names and Descriptions,Industrial designs,Geographical Indications of Goods,Copyright and Related Rights and Trade Secrets-Their characteristic
UNIT-IV
EmergingformsofIP-NewPlantVarieties, IP in Life forms and Micro-Organisms,Lay-outDesigns,TraditionalKnowledgeandIndigenousKnowledge-Business Methods-Computer Programmes-Traditional Cultural expressions- Bio-piracy, Bio-prospecting and Bio-ethical Issues relating to IP Protection
Suggested Readings:
1. P.Narayanan,IntellectualPropertyLaw, EasternLaw House,Kolkata.
2.PolaKoteshwaraRao,SupremeCourtandParliament :Right to PropertyandEconomic Justice,LawBook Agency,Hyderabad.
3. PrabhuddhaGanguli,IntellectualPropertyRights-UnleashingKnowledgeEconomy, Tata-McgrawHill,NewDelhi.
4. ShahidAlikhanRaghunathMashelkar,IntellectualPropertyandCompetitiveStrategiesinthe 21stCentury,KluwerLawInternational,London.
5.N.S.Gopalakrishnan,IntellectualPropertyandCriminalLaw ,NationalLawSchooloflndiaUniversity,Bangalore.
6.GB.Reddy:IntellectualPropertyRightsandLaw:Gogia LawAgency, Hyderabad.
7.S.K.Verma:IntellectualPropetyRights,ILI,NewDelhi.
8.DavidBainbridge:IntellectualProperty,Pearson
EducationLtd,NewDelhi.
9.Pearson&Miller:CommercialExploitationoflntellectual
Property(2004),UniversalLawPublishingCo.Pvt.Ltd,Delhi.
10.
11. R.S.Bhalla, The Institution of Property-Legally, Historically and PhilosophicallyRegarded,EBC,Delhi.
SEMESTER-II
Paper III
International Legal Regime Relating to Intellectual Property Rights
Unit - I
Meaning, Nature and Classification of Intellectual Property -Transnational Character of Intellectual Property- International Players in the Field of Intellectual Property - International Efforts to Protect IPR.
Unit-II
International Instruments relating to IPR Protection- Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883)- Berne Convention for the Protection of Copyright (1886) – Madrid Convention for International Registration of Trademarks1891 - Rome Convention – The Hague Convention - PCT - WCT - WPPT – PLT
Unit - III:
International Conventions and Agreements Relating to international Trade and IPR – TRIPS Agreement - SAFTA·- NAFTA
Unit-III
International and Regional Institutions Relating to IPR - W I P O - UNESCO-ARIPO- TheirComposition, Powers, Functions, and Jurisdiction.
Suggested Readings:
1.W.R.Cornish,IntellectualProperty:Patents,Copyright,TrademarksandAllied Rights,SweetandMaxwell, London.
2.MarshalA.Leaffer,InternationalTreatiesonIntellectual Property, the BureauofNationalAffairs Inc,WashingtonD.C.
3.Hillary E.Pearson &Miller C.G., Commercial Exploitation ofIntellectualProperty,UniversalBookTraders, NewDelhi.
4.WIPO, Background ReadingonIntellectual Property
5.ReportoftheCommissiononIntellectualPropertyRights,London,2002-“IntegratingIntellectualPropertyRightsandDevelopmentPolicy".
6.GB.Reddy,IntellectualPropertyRightsandtheLaw,,Gogia Law Agency, Hyderabad
7.JayasreeWatal:IntellectualPropertyRights, OUP (2002), New Delhi.
8.SenderMarthaCross:BorderEnforcementofPatentRights, (2002),OUP,New York.
9.Dreyfuss,ExpandingBoundariesofIntellectualProperty Rights, (2001), OUP,New York.
Paper IV
Law Relating to Copyright and Neighboring Rights
Unit-I
Conceptofcopyright-Idea and Expression dichotomy-meaningandsubjectmatterofcopyright –PositionundertheCopyrightAct,1957;BerneConvention,UCC,WCTandWPPTjudicial interpretationofmeaningandsubjectmatterofcopyright.
Unit-II
Copyright protection in India-Ownershipandauthorship-Economicand moralrightsofauthors/owners-Termofcopyright-assignmentandIicensingofcopyrightincludingcompulsorylicensing-Impact of the 2012 Amendment to copyright law
Unit-III
Meaningofneighboringrights-RightsofProducersofphonograms ,Broadcasting Organizations andperformers-BroadcastReproductionRightandPerformersRights-Collective management of copyright and related rights –Digital rights Management- Registrar and CopyrightBoard—Powersandfunctions.
Unit-IV
Infringementofcopyrightandneighboringrights-Exceptions toinfringementofcopyright-DoctrineofFairUse-Remediesforinfringementofcopyright(Administrative,CivilandCriminal)-ProtectionofInternationalCopyright- Emerging issues in copyright protection
Suggested Readings:
•David Bainbridge,IntellectualProperty, PearsonEducation Limited,London.
•BradSherman&LionelBentley,TheMakingofModernIntellectual
•Prope1tyLaw,CambridgeUniversityPress,London.
•W.R.Cornish,IntellectualProperty:Patents,Copyright,Trademarks
•andAlliedRights,1999,SweetandMaxwell,London.
•David Saunders, Authorship and Copyright,Routledge,London.
•JohnGurnsey,CopyrightTheft,1995,ASLIBGower,Hampshire,England.
• G.B.Reddy,CopyrightLawinIndia, GogiaLawAgency,Hyderabad.
• P.Narayanan,Copyright Lawand Industrial Designs ,EasternLawHouse,Kolkata.
• GillianDavis:CopyrightLawandpublicInterest, Sweet Maxwell,Londo
• T. Vidya Kumari, Copyright Protection Current Indian &
• International Perspectives, Asia Law House
• RobinJacob:AGuidebooktoIntellectualProperty, Sweet Maxwell,London.
• RelevantInternationalInstrumentsrelatingtocopyrightlike, Berne Convention,RomeConvention,WCT,UCCandWPPTetc.
SEMESTER-III
Paper V
Legal Research Methodology
(Common Paper for All the Branches)
Unit-I:
Meaning of Research-Types of Research-Scientific Method-Social Science Research- Scope and importance of Legal Research-Concepts-VariablesDefinitions-Relevance of empirical research in law-Induction and Deduction-Case study.
Unit-II:
Finding the Law-Sources of legal material including e-sources-Law reporting in India-Using a law library-Survey of available legal material-bibliographical search. Research Methods-Socio-legal research-doctrinal and non-doctrinal research.
Unit III:
Research tools and techniques for collection of data-Observation Questionnaire-Schedule-Interview-Sampling techniques-Types of sampling. Formulation of Research Problem-Hypothesis-Research Design.
Unit-IV:
Data processing and analysis-Use of Statistics in the analysis and interpretation of data-Use of computers in Legal Research-Report writing. Legal Research and Law Reforms-Types of Research needed for Law Reforms-Analytical Research, Historical Research.
Suggested Readings:
1.Goode Hatt: Methods in Social Research:McGraw-Hill Book Company,Singapore 1981
2.C.R.Kothari: Research Methodology :Methods and Techniques,2"dEdition,WishwaPrakashan,NewDelhi,1995.
3.Wilkinson & Bhandarkar, Methodology and Techniques of Social Research,9th Edition, Himalaya Publishing Housing, Bombay-Delhi-Nagpur 1994.
4.Pauline V Young :Scientific Social Survey and research,3rdEdition,PrenticeHall,NewYork,1960.
5.B.N.Ghosh, Scientific Method and Social Research;4th Edition Sterling Publishers Private Limited,NewDelhi,1987.
6.S.K.Verma & Afzalwani, Legal Research and Methodology; ILI Publication, New Delhi,
7.Hans Raj, Theory and Practice in Social Research;4th Edition, Surjeet Publicatios,NewDelhi,1992.
Paper VI
Law Relating to Patents in India
Unit-I
Evolution ofpatent-meaning,definitionandnatureofpatent-Classificationofpatents-Subject-matterofpatenting(patentableandnon-patentablesubject-matter)-ThePatents Act,l970.
Unit-II
Essentialconditionsforgrantofpatent-Specifications: meaning, kinds and contents-ProcedureforregistrationofpatentinIndiaandatinternationallevel.-Stages of patenting-Opposition to grant of patent-Grant of patents- standards of patentability in the changing technological context
Unit-III
Rights,dutiesandlimitationsof/onpatentholdersSurrenderandrevocationofpatents-Termofpatentprotection-TransferofpatentrightswithspecialreferencetoLicensing-compulsory1icensing-acquisitionbygovernment
Unit-IV
Infringementofpatentrights-Remedies(Administrative,CivilandCriminal)-Authoritiesunderthe Act-Controllerofpatents& IPAB-Their powers, functionsandjurisdiction.
Suggested Readings:
1 B.L.Wadhera,Law RelatingtoPatents,Trademarks,Copyright,Designs
Geographical Indications,Universal LawPublishingCo.Ltd.,NewDelhi.
2.Prof.WillemHoyngFrankEijsvogels,GlobalPatentLitigation, WoltersKluwer,Bedfordshire,U.K.
3.David Bainbridge,Intellectual Property, PearsonEducation Ltd,London.
4.W.R.Comish,IntellectualProperty:Patents,Copyright,TrademarksandalliedRights,SweetMaxwell,London.
5.ManishArora,GuidetoNewPatentLaw, UniversalLawPublicationsCo.Pvt.Ltd.
6.P.Naryanana:PatentLaw,Eastern law House,Kolkata
7.SenderMarta,Cross:BorderEnforcementofPatentRights OUP,NewYork.
8.Bio-TechnologyandIntellectualPropertyRights ,NLSIU,Bangalore.
9.RelevantIntellectualInstrumentslikeParisConvention,PCT,PLT,StrasburgIntellectualPatent classification etc.
10.
11. Elizabeth Varkey, Law of Patents, EBC
SEMESTER-IV
Paper-VII
Law Relating to Trademarks and
Designs
Unit-I
ConceptofTrademarks,TradenamesandServicemarks-meaning,definition, purpose andnature-trademarksandpropertymarks-classificationoftrademarks-subject-matteroftrademarkprotection(Goods,ServicesandDomainnames)-TheTrademarksAct,1999- Conventional and non-conventional trademarks
UNIT-II
Registration of Trademarks-EssentialconditionsforregistrationofTMs-CharacteristicsofagoodTM-ProcedureforregistrationofTMsinIndiaandabroad- Impact of non-registration
UNIT-III
RightsofproprietorsandregisteredusersofTMs-TransferofTMsLicensing-Infringementandpassing-offof TMs-Remedies(Administrative,CivilandCriminal)-AuthoritiesundertheAct-theirpowers,functionsandjurisdiction.
UNIT-IV
ConceptofIndustrialDesigns-meaning,definitionandnature-subjectmatterofdesignprotection-Essential conditionsforregistrationofdesigns-rightsofdesignholders-infringement andpiracyofdesignsRemedies(Administrative, CivilandCriminal)-AuthoritiesundertheAct-theirpowers,functionsandjurisdiction.
Suggested Readings:
1.EricM.Dobrusin ,Esq.,KatherineE.White,Intellectual PropertyLitigation:PretrialPracice,WoltersKluwer,Bedfordshire,U.K.
2.WIPO,BackgroundReadingonIntellectualProperty .
3.ReportoftheCommissiononIntellectualPropertyRights,London,2002-"IntegratingIntellectualPropertyRightsandDevelopmentPolicy".
4.GB.Reddy,IntellectualPropertyRightsandtheLaw,Gogia LawAgency.Hyderabad
5.P.Narayana:TradeMark,TradenameandPassingoff(Vol.I&IIEasternLawHouse,Kolkata.
6.Unni.V.K:TrademarkstheEmerging conceptsofCyberProperty Rights,(2002)EasternLawHouse , Kolkata.
7.AdamsJohn,MerchandisingIntellectualProperty,Butterworths,London.
8.
9.RelevantInternational InstrumentsincludingMadridAgreement,TLTandNiceAgreement.
Paper VIII
Indian Constitutional Law: The New Challenges
(Common Paper for All the Branches)
UNIT-I
Concept of Federalism-Allocation of resources-Inter State Disputes Central-State Relations-Special status of certain States-Concept of Secularism and religious fanaticism-Definition of State-Need for widening the definition in the wake of recent developments.
UNIT-II
Right to Equality-its new dimensions-Protective Discrimination in the wake of privatization –gender Justice-Rights of third gender-Uniform Civil Code-Freedom of Speech and Expression Right to broadcast and telecast-Right to Strike, Hartal and Bandh.
UNIT-III
New regime of Constitutional Rights-Reading Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties in to Fundamental Rights-Theory of Emanation-Compensatory Jurisprudence-Right to Education-Right to Information-Right to wholesome environment- Doctrine of public trust
UNIT-IV
Institutional Dynamics-An overview of functioning of three organs of State with special reference to the Indian experience of post independence era -Separation of Powers, and theory of checks and Balances-Privileges and Immunities of Legislatures and their members-Judicial Activism and Judicial Accountability-Contempt of Courts-Political Morality and effect of Anti-defection Law
Suggested Readings:
1.H. M. Seervai, Constitutional Law of India (in 2-Volumes),Universal Book Traders, New Delhi.
2.Granville Austin, Indian Constitution-Cornerstone Nation, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
3.Constituent Assembly Debates (Official Report),(in 5 Books and 12 Volumes),Lok Sabha Secretariat, New Delhi.
4.B.Shiva Rao, Framing of the Indian Constitution (in 5-Volumes),Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi.
5.M.P.Jain, Constitutional Law of India, Wadhwa and Co., Nagpur.
6.Granville Austin, Working a Democratic Constitution: A History of the Indian Experience, OUP
7.Landmark and Recent Articles on relevant topics published in Standard Law Journals like Journal of Indian Law Institute, Indian Bar Review, All India Reporter and Supreme Court Cases & landmark judgments of Indian Higher Judiciary on the given topics.
Paper IX:
DISSERTATION
LL.M. IV Semester students shall have to submit Dissertation on the topic approved by the concerned Committee before the expiry of the date as per the almanac in accordance with guidelines given below. Further the topics for thesis should be got approved before the expiry of the III semester. The candidates who fail to submit the thesis before the stipulated date will have to submit the same along with the next batch.
1.LL.M. IV Semester students shall prepare a synopsis on the topics allotted to them.
2.It must be approved by the Guide and be submitted to the concerned Principals in the first week, after commencement of LL.M. IV semester.
3.A Record shall be maintained by the students in which the summary of study and the progress made by them shall be entered once in every 15 days and it is to be signed by the guide in approval of the same.
4.Thorough discussion shall be had by the students with the Guide at the end of the study, and the thesis shall be prepared on thelines indicated by the Guide.
5.The thesis shall correspond with the notes/record maintained by the Guide.
The thesis shall be equivalent to two theory papers, and there will be 200 marks out of which 160 shall be for evaluation and 40 shall be for viva-voce examination.
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